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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Betsi Cadwaladr (24 May 1789 – 17 July 1860), also known as Beti Cadwaladr, [1] Betsi Davis, [2] and Elizabeth Davis, [3] was a Welsh nurse. She began nursing on travelling ships in her 30s (1820s) and later nursed in the Crimean War alongside Florence Nightingale.
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari, Jerry Barrett, 1857.Eliza Roberts is portrayed kneeling tending a wounded soldier. Her health had sufficiently improved that on the outbreak of the Crimean War in the following year she volunteered to join Florence Nightingale's team of 38 nurses travelling out to tend the sick and wounded at Scutari Hospital, having ...
1854 – Florence Nightingale appointed as the Superintendent of Nursing Staff. 1854 – Florence Nightingale and 38 volunteer nurses are sent to Turkey on October 21 to assist with caring for the injured of the Crimean War. 1854 – In a letter written November 15, 1854, to Dr Bowman, Florence Nightingale gives definite statistics:
Nightingale and Stanley's friendship suffered [2] but Nightingale soon promoted Stewart. [1] In 1856 Florence Nightingale believed she would soon die so she told her supporter General Storks that if she did, then Stewart should take over her duties. Later she wrote of Stewart in glowing terms.
Florence Nightingale formed the first nucleus of a recognised Nursing Service for the British Army during the Crimean War in 1854. In the same theatre of the same war, Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov and the Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna originated Russian traditions of recruiting and training military nurses – associated especially with ...
Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia; Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service; Vera Brittain (1893–1970), WWI VAD; Mary Francis Bridgeman (1813–1888), nun and Crimean War nurse; Ellen Johanne Broe (1900–1994) Danish nurse and nursing educator
The "American" definition of health promotion, first promulgated by the American Journal of Health Promotion in the late 1980s, focuses more on the delivery of services with a bio-behavioral approach rather than environmental support using a settings approach. Later the power on the environment over behavior was incorporated.